La Séparation

• Isabelle Huppert: Anne
• Daniel Auteuil: Pierre
• Jérôme Deschamps: Victor
• Karin Viard Claire
• Laurence Lerel: Laurence
• Louis Vincent: Loulou
• Nina Morato: Marie
• Jean -Jacques Vanier: speaker at ceremony
• Christian Benedetti: lawyer
• Frédéric Gélard: landlord
• Gérard Jumel: Man on celebration
• Estelle Larrivaz: Woman on celebration
• Claudine Challier: Anne's mother

Separation is a French relationship drama by Christian Vincent from the year 1994.

Action

It's February: Anne and Pierre live together for many years. You are not married, but have a 15 month old son, Loulou. Pierre, who works as a book illustrator, has bought a video camera with which he films Loulou. With Anne he goes into a restaurant and into the cinemas, where both Roberto Rossellini's Europa 51 view. When Pierre Anne wants to grab her hand, she pulls it back after a short time. His questions at home differs from them, but Pierre suspects that their relationship is in crisis. He meets up with his good friend Claire, who calmed him, a crisis but come in many relationships. After the joint visit to a birthday party opened Anne Pierre that she had fallen in love with another man. Pierre responds quietly and Anne tried in the evening to explain what he felt and what he went on his way home through the head. He tries to understand her sudden rejection, but Anne says only that there are many small things that they have apart. They noted your new friend more and talk more with her.

Some time passes and Pierre suffers silently increasingly under the floating relationship. In a conversation with his friend Victor he says, the wait made ​​him sick because he and Anne talked since the night no more about their relationship and since then act as if nothing had happened. When Anne told him one day that she would the next night away with her boyfriend eat, Pierre makes it clear that he never wants to see him and will not even be there when she trims for the evening. He tries her erklärem that the load, which they got rid of their discussion to their new relationship, be in some way transferred to him, but he can hardly believe his feelings into adequate words. Although their relationship seems doomed to fail, both provide for her friends Claire and Victor continue as a couple. The four of them are looking at a house in the country where they want to spend the summer time. It comes for trifles to the dispute between Anne and Pierre. Back in Paris, both are invited to Claire and Victor, they open up that they want to marry. Pierre is dismayed and wants to know the reason, but there is no compelling. When Anne welcomed the decision of the couple, Pierre responded cynically. In their renewed accusations towards Pierre asks them to leave. In fact, she leaves the house and Pierre can not stop them. She stays the night away and Pierre awaits them. When she appears at dawn, Pierre calls her a choice: If she loves another man, she shall take off, if not, stay. She refuses to make that decision, even if he can not deal with the uncertain situation. It comes to blows, pulling out at the end of Pierre from the shared bedroom.

Pierre meets with Victor and later spend the afternoon with Loulou. When he comes home, Anne reacts with allegations that he had but otherwise hardly cared about their child. It shocked Pierre, when he learns that she has already spoken with an attorney and the child will live in the event of separation from Anne. She makes it clear that he will see Loulou only on the weekends. A lawyer by Pierre visits, confirmed Annes statement. Anne brings Loulou secretly to her mother and looking up at him, just after he has experienced it. Pierre attacks them beside himself with indignation, and both are reflected in the courtyard of their house. Anne says that doing these scenes did they want to save Loulou.

A few weeks later - Loulou will soon be 18 months old - Pierre has accepted that he will not be an essential part in Loulou's life in the future. He meets Anne in their shared apartment and tells her that she should not move out, but he 'll go. Both seek a bar. Pierre Anne confesses to have originally been afraid to be seamlessly replaced by a pull by the other man. She calms him, but they have separated from the other man. Back at the apartment Pierre says goodbye at the door. He does not want to get her, and also do not see Loulou. The nanny of the couple sees Pierre later disoriented in the street. On the way to the station he has lost and later tried desperately to get a taxi, but all the cars drive past him. Mentally at the end he goes to the station.

Production

Separation is based on Dan Franck's novel La séparation. Franck was also co-wrote the film. Separation came in the French cinema on November 9, 1994. In Germany he was shown on 23 July 1997 premiere.

Criticism

For the filmdienst separation was a " with cool precision trapped relationship drama that takes into account the perspectives of both parties, the " and " presentational excellent." " Compassionate and oppressive chamber play " Cinema made ​​the movie together.

Awards

Separation was 1995, two César nominations: Daniel Auteuil was nominated for Best Actor and Best Actress Isabelle Huppert. In 1999, separation was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Satellite Awards.